Opera
- Robert Ashley – Perfect Lives
- Lorenzo Ferrero – Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil
- Vivian Fine – The Women in the Garden
- György Ligeti – Le grand macabre
- Krzysztof Penderecki – Paradise Lost (libretto by Christopher Fry)
- Aulis Sallinen – The Red Line (Punainen viiva)
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)